Deviance (sociology)

Deviance or the sociology of deviance[1][2]

explores the actions and/ or behaviors that
violate social norms across formally enacted
rules (e.g., crime)[3] as well as informal
violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting
folkways and mores). Although deviance may
have a negative connotation, the violation of
social norms is not always a negative action;
positive deviation exists in some situations.
Although a norm is violated, a behavior can
still be classified as positive or acceptable.[4]

Social norms differ throughout society and

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sanctions or punishments within one society
and be seen as a normal behaviour in another
society. Additionally, as a society's understanding of social norms changes over time, so too does the
collective perception of deviance.[5]

Deviance is relative to the place where it was committed or to the time the act took place. Killing another
human is generally considered wrong for example, except when governments permit it during warfare or
for self-defense. There are two types of major deviant actions: mala in se and mala prohibita.

Contents
Types
Theories
Structural-functionalism
Durkheim's normative theory of suicide
Merton's strain theory
Symbolic interaction
Sutherland's differential association
Neutralization theory
Labeling theory
Primary and secondary deviation
Broken windows theory
Control theory
Conflict theory
Karl Marx
Michel Foucault
Biological theories of deviance
Other theories
The criminal justice system
See also
Notes
Further reading
External links

Types
The violation of norms can be categorized as two forms, formal deviance and informal deviance. Formal
deviance can be described as a crime, which violates laws in a society. Informal deviance are minor
violations that break unwritten rules of social life. Norms that have great moral significance are mores.
Under informal deviance, a more opposes societal taboos.[6]

Taboo is a strong social form of behavior considered deviant by a majority. To speak of it publicly is
condemned, and therefore, almost entirely avoided. The term “taboo” comes from the Tongan word “tapu”
meaning "under prohibition", "not allowed", or "forbidden". Some forms of taboo are prohibited under law
and transgressions may lead to severe penalties. Other forms of taboo result in shame, disrespect and
humiliation. Taboo is not universal but does occur in the majority of societies. Some of the examples
include murder, rape, incest, or child molestation.

Howard Becker, a labeling theorist, identified four different types of deviant behavior labels which are
given as:

1. "Falsely accusing" an individual - others perceive the individual to be obtaining obedient or

deviant behaviors.
2. "Pure deviance", others perceive the individual as participating in deviant and rule-breaking
behavior.
3. "Conforming", others perceive the individual to be participating in the social norms that are
distributed within societies.
4. "Secret deviance" which is when the individual is not perceived as deviant or participating in
any rule-breaking behaviors.

Theories
Deviant acts can be assertions of individuality and identity, and thus as rebellion against group norms (http
s://plato.stanford.edu/entries/social-norms/) of the dominant culture and in favor of a sub-culture. In a
society, the behavior of an individual or a group determines how a deviant creates norms.[7]

Three broad sociological classes exist that describe deviant behavior, namely, structural functionalism,
symbolic interaction and conflict theory.

Structural-functionalism

Structural functionalists are concerned with how various factors in a society come together and interact to
form the whole. Most notable, the work of Émile Durkheim and Robert Merton have contributed to the
Functionalist ideals.[8]
Durkheim's normative theory of suicide

Émile Durkheim would claim that deviance was in fact a normal

and necessary part of social organization.[3] He would state four
important functions of deviance:

1. "Deviance affirms cultural values and norms. Any

definition of virtue rests on an opposing idea of vice:
There can be no good without evil and no justice without
crime."[3]
2. Deviance defines moral boundaries, people learn right
Structural-functionalist understanding
from wrong by defining people as deviant.
of deviance
3. A serious form of deviance forces people to come
together and react in the same way against it.
4. Deviance pushes society's moral boundaries which, in turn leads to social change.

When social deviance is committed, the collective conscience is offended. Durkheim (1897) describes the
collective conscience as a set of social norms by which members of a society follow.[8] Without the
collective conscience, there would be no absolute morals followed in institutions or groups.

Social integration is the attachment to groups and institutions, while social regulation is the adherence to the
norms and values of society. Durkheim's theory attributes social deviance to extremes of social integration
and social regulation. He stated four different types of suicide from the relationship between social
integration and social regulation:[8]

1. Altruistic suicide occurs when one is too socially integrated.

2. Egoistic suicide occurs when one is not very socially integrated.
3. Anomic suicide occurs when there is very little social regulation from a sense of
aimlessness or despair.
4. Fatalistic suicide occurs when a person experiences too much social regulation.

Merton's strain theory

Robert K. Merton discussed deviance in terms of goals and means

as part of his strain/anomie theory. Where Durkheim states that
anomie is the confounding of social norms, Merton goes further
and states that anomie is the state in which social goals and the
legitimate means to achieve them do not correspond. He
postulated that an individual's response to societal expectations
and the means by which the individual pursued those goals were
useful in understanding deviance. Specifically, he viewed
collective action as motivated by strain, stress, or frustration in a
body of individuals that arises from a disconnection between the society's goals and the popularly used
means to achieve those goals. Often, non-routine collective behavior (rioting, rebellion, etc.) is said to map
onto economic explanations and causes by way of strain. These two dimensions determine the adaptation to
society according to the cultural goals, which are the society's perceptions about the ideal life, and to the
institutionalized means, which are the legitimate means through which an individual may aspire to the
cultural goals.[9]

Merton described 5 types of deviance in terms of the acceptance or rejection of social goals and the
institutionalized means of achieving them:[3]
 1. Innovation is a response due to the strain generated by our culture's emphasis on wealth
and the lack of opportunities to get rich, which causes people to be "innovators" by engaging
in stealing and selling drugs. Innovators accept society's goals, but reject socially
acceptable means of achieving them. (e.g.: monetary success is gained through crime).
Merton claims that innovators are mostly those who have been socialised with similar world
views to conformists, but who have been denied the opportunities they need to be able to
legitimately achieve society's goals.
2. Conformists accept society's goals and the socially acceptable means of achieving them
(e.g.: monetary success is gained through hard work). Merton claims that conformists are
mostly middle-class people in middle class jobs who have been able to access the
opportunities in society such as a better education to achieve monetary success through
hard work.
3. Ritualism refers to the inability to reach a cultural goal thus embracing the rules to the point
where the people in question lose sight of their larger goals in order to feel respectable.
Ritualists reject society's goals, but accept society's institutionalised means. Ritualists are
most commonly found in dead-end, repetitive jobs, where they are unable to achieve
society's goals but still adhere to society's means of achievement and social norms.
4. Retreatism is the rejection of both cultural goals and means, letting the person in question
"drop out". Retreatists reject the society's goals and the legitimate means to achieve them.
Merton sees them as true deviants, as they commit acts of deviance to achieve things that do
not always go along with society's values.
5. Rebellion is somewhat similar to retreatism, because the people in question also reject both
the cultural goals and means, but they go one step further to a "counterculture" that supports
other social orders that already exist (rule breaking). Rebels reject society's goals and
legitimate means to achieve them, and instead creates new goals and means to replace
those of society, creating not only new goals to achieve but also new ways to achieve these
goals that other rebels will find acceptable.

Symbolic interaction

Symbolic interaction refers to the patterns of communication, interpretation, and adjustment between
individuals. Both the verbal and nonverbal responses that a listener then delivers are similarly constructed in
expectation of how the original speaker will react. The ongoing process is like the game of charades, only it
is a full-fledged conversation.[10]

The term "symbolic interactionism" has come into use as a label for a relatively distinctive approach to the
study of human life and human conduct.[11] With symbolic interactionism, reality is seen as social,
developed interaction with others. Most symbolic interactionists believe a physical reality does indeed exist
by an individual's social definitions, and that social definitions do develop in part or relation to something
“real.” People thus do not respond to this reality directly, but rather to the social understanding of reality.
Humans therefore exist in three realities: a physical objective reality, a social reality, and a unique. A unique
is described as a third reality created out of the social reality, a private interpretation of the reality that is
shown to the person by others.[12] Both individuals and society cannot be separated far from each other for
two reasons. One, being that both are created through social interaction, and two, one cannot be understood
in terms without the other. Behavior is not defined by forces from the environment such as drives, or
instincts, but rather by a reflective, socially understood meaning of both the internal and external incentives
that are currently presented.[13]

Herbert Blumer (1969) set out three basic premises of the perspective:[11]

1. "Humans act toward things on the basis of the meanings they ascribe to those things;"
 2. "The meaning of such things is derived from, or arises out of, the social interaction that one
has with others and the society;" and
3. "These meanings are handled in, and modified through, an interpretative process used by
the person in dealing with the things he/she encounters;"

Sutherland's differential association

In his differential association theory, Edwin Sutherland posited that criminals learn criminal and deviant
behaviors and that deviance is not inherently a part of a particular individual's nature. When an individual's
significant others engage in deviant and/or criminal behavior, criminal behavior will be learned as a result to
this exposure.[14] He argues that criminal behavior is learned in the same way that all other behaviors are
learned, meaning that the acquisition of criminal knowledge is not unique compared to the learning of other
behaviors.

Sutherland outlined some very basic points in his theory, including the idea that the learning comes from the
interactions between individuals and groups, using communication of symbols and ideas. When the
symbols and ideas about deviation are much more favorable than unfavorable, the individual tends to take a
favorable view upon deviance and will resort to more of these behaviors.

Criminal behavior (motivations and technical knowledge), as with any other sort of behavior, is learned.
One example of this would be gang activity in inner city communities. Sutherland would feel that because a
certain individual's primary influential peers are in a gang environment, it is through interaction with them
that one may become involved in crime.[14]

Neutralization theory

Gresham Sykes and David Matza's neutralization theory explains how deviants justify their deviant
behaviors by providing alternative definitions of their actions and by providing explanations, to themselves
and others, for the lack of guilt for actions in particular situations.

There are five types of neutralization:[15]

1. Denial of responsibility: the deviant believes s/he was helplessly propelled into the
deviance, and that under the same circumstances, any other person would resort to similar
actions;
2. Denial of injury: the deviant believes that the action caused no harm to other individuals or
to the society, and thus the deviance is not morally wrong;
3. Denial of the victim: the deviant believes that individuals on the receiving end of the
deviance were deserving of the results due to the victim's lack of virtue or morals;
4. Condemnation of the condemners: the deviant believes enforcement figures or victims
have the tendency to be equally deviant or otherwise corrupt, and as a result, are hypocrites
to stand against; and
5. Appeal to higher loyalties: the deviant believes that there are loyalties and values that go
beyond the confines of the law; morality, friendships, income, or traditions may be more
important to the deviant than legal boundaries.

Labeling theory

Frank Tannenbaum and Howard S. Becker created and developed the labeling theory, which is a core facet
of symbolic interactionism, and often referred to as Tannenbaum's "dramatization of evil." Becker believed
that "social groups create deviance by making the rules whose infraction constitutes deviance".
Labeling is a process of social reaction by the "social audience," wherein people stereotype others, judging
and accordingly defining (labeling) someone's behavior as deviant or otherwise. It has been characterized
as the "invention, selection, manipulation of beliefs which define conduct in a negative way and the
selection of people into these categories."[16]

As such, labeling theory suggests that deviance is caused by the deviant's being labeled as morally inferior,
the deviant's internalizing the label and finally the deviant's acting according to that specific label (i.e., an
individual labelled as "deviant" will act accordingly). As time goes by, the "deviant" takes on traits that
constitute deviance by committing such deviations as conform to the label (so the audience has the power to
not label them and have the power to stop the deviance before it ever occurs by not labeling them).
Individual and societal preoccupation with the label, in other words, leads the deviant individual to follow a
self-fulfilling prophecy of abidance to the ascribed label.[3]

This theory, while very much symbolically interactionist, also has elements of conflict theory, as the
dominant group has the power to decide what is deviant and acceptable, and enjoys the power behind the
labeling process. An example of this is a prison system that labels people convicted of theft, and because of
this they start to view themselves as by definition thieves, incapable of changing. "From this point of view,"
Howard S. Becker writes:[17]

Deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the
application by others of rules and sanctions to an "offender". The deviant is one to whom the
label has successfully been applied; deviant behavior is behavior that people so label.

In other words, "behavior only becomes deviant or criminal if defined and interfered as such by specific
people in [a] specific situation."[18] It is important to note the salient fact that society is not always correct in
its labeling, often falsely identifying and misrepresenting people as deviants, or attributing to them
characteristics which they do not have. In legal terms, people are often wrongly accused, yet many of them
must live with the ensuant stigma (or conviction) for the rest of their lives.

On a similar note, society often employs double standards, with some sectors of society enjoying
favouritism. Certain behaviors in one group are seen to be perfectly acceptable, or can be easily
overlooked, but in another are seen, by the same audiences, as abominable.

The medicalization of deviance, the transformation of moral and legal deviance into a medical condition,
is an important shift that has transformed the way society views deviance.[3]: 204 The labelling theory helps
to explain this shift, as behaviour that used to be judged morally are now being transformed into an
objective clinical diagnosis. For example, people with drug addictions are considered "sick" instead of
"bad."[3]: 204

Primary and secondary deviation

Edwin Lemert developed the idea of primary and secondary deviation as a way to explain the process of
labeling. Primary deviance is any general deviance before the deviant is labeled as such in a particular way.
Secondary deviance is any action that takes place after primary deviance as a reaction to the institutional
identification of the person as a deviant.[3]

When an actor commits a crime (primary deviance), however mild, the institution will bring social penalties
down on the actor. However, punishment does not necessarily stop crime, so the actor might commit the
same primary deviance again, bringing even harsher reactions from the institutions. At this point, the actor
will start to resent the institution, while the institution brings harsher and harsher repression. Eventually, the
whole community will stigmatize the actor as a deviant and the actor will not be able to tolerate this, but
will ultimately accept his or her role as a criminal, and will commit criminal acts that fit the role of a
criminal.

Primary and secondary deviation is what causes people to become harder criminals. Primary deviance is the
time when the person is labeled deviant through confession or reporting. Secondary deviance is deviance
before and after the primary deviance. Retrospective labeling happens when the deviant recognizes his acts
as deviant prior to the primary deviance, while prospective labeling is when the deviant recognizes future
acts as deviant. The steps to becoming a criminal are:

1. Primary deviation;
2. Social penalties;
3. Secondary deviation;
4. Stronger penalties;
5. Further deviation with resentment and hostility towards punishers;
6. Community stigmatizes the deviant as a criminal;
7. Tolerance threshold passed;
8. Strengthening of deviant conduct because of stigmatizing penalties; and finally,
9. Acceptance as role of deviant or criminal actor.

Broken windows theory

Broken windows theory states that an increase in minor crimes such as graffiti, would eventually lead to
and encourage an increase in larger transgressions. This suggests that greater policing on minor forms of
deviance would lead to a decrease in major crimes. The theory has been tested in a variety of settings
including New York City in the 90s. Compared to the country's average at the time, violent crime rates fell
28 percent as a result of the campaign. Critics of the theory question the direct causality of the policing and
statistical changes that occurred.[19]

Control theory

Control theory advances the proposition that weak bonds between the individual and society free people to
deviate. By contrast, strong bonds make deviance costly. This theory asks why people refrain from deviant
or criminal behavior, instead of why people commit deviant or criminal behavior, according to Travis
Hirschi. The control theory developed when norms emerge to deter deviant behavior. Without this
"control", deviant behavior would happen more often. This leads to conformity and groups. People will
conform to a group when they believe they have more to gain from conformity than by deviance. If a
strong bond is achieved there will be less chance of deviance than if a weak bond has occurred. Hirschi
argued a person follows the norms because they have a bond to society. The bond consists of four
positively correlated factors: opportunity, attachment, belief, and involvement.[3]: 204 When any of these
bonds are weakened or broken one is more likely to act in defiance. Michael Gottfredson and Travis
Hirschi in 1990 founded their Self-Control Theory. It stated that acts of force and fraud are undertaken in
the pursuit of self-interest and self-control. A deviant act is based on a criminals own self-control of
themselves.

Containment theory is considered by researchers such as Walter C. Reckless to be part of the control theory
because it also revolves around the thoughts that stop individuals from engaging in crime. Reckless studied
the unfinished approaches meant to explain the reasoning behind delinquency and crime. He recognized
that societal disorganization is included in the study of delinquency and crime under social deviance,
leading him to claim that the majority of those who live in unstable areas tend not to have criminal
tendencies in comparison those who live in middle-class areas. This claim opens up more possible
approaches to social disorganization, and proves that the already implemented theories are in need or a
deeper connection to further explore ideas of crime and delinquency. These observations brought Reckless
to ask questions such as, "Why do some persons break through the tottering (social) controls and others do
not? Why do rare cases in well-integrated society break through the lines of strong controls?" Reckless
asserted that the intercommunication between self-control and social controls are partly responsible for the
development of delinquent thoughts. Social disorganization was not related to a particular environment, but
instead was involved in the deterioration of an individuals social controls. The containment theory is the
idea that everyone possesses mental and social safeguards which protect the individual from committing
acts of deviancy. Containment depends on the individuals ability to separate inner and outer controls for
normative behavior.[20]

More contemporary control theorists such as Robert Crutchfield take the theory into a new light, suggesting
labor market experiences not only affect the attitudes and the "stakes" of individual workers, but can also
affect the development of their children's views toward conformity and cause involvement in delinquency.
This is an ongoing study as he has found a significant relationship between parental labor market
involvement and children's delinquency, but has not empirically demonstrated the mediating role of parents'
or children's attitude. In a study conducted by Tim Wadsworth, the relationship between parent's
employment and children's delinquency, which was previously suggested by Crutchfield (1993), was
shown empirically for the first time. The findings from this study supported the idea that the relationship
between socioeconomic status and delinquency might be better understood if the quality of employment
and its role as an informal social control is closely examined.[21]

Conflict theory

In sociology, conflict theory states that society or an organization functions so that each individual
participant and its groups struggle to maximize their benefits, which inevitably contributes to social change
such as political changes and revolutions. Deviant behaviors are actions that do not go along with the social
institutions as what cause deviance. The institution's ability to change norms, wealth or status comes into
conflict with the individual. The legal rights of poor folks might be ignored, middle class are also accept;
they side with the elites rather than the poor, thinking they might rise to the top by supporting the status
quo. Conflict theory is based upon the view that the fundamental causes of crime are the social and
economic forces operating within society. However, it explains white-collar crime less well.

This theory also states that the powerful define crime. This raises the question: for whom is this theory
functional? In this theory, laws are instruments of oppression: tough on the powerless and less tough on the
powerful.

Karl Marx

Marx did not write about deviant behavior but he wrote about alienation amongst the proletariat—as well as
between the proletariat and the finished product—which causes conflict, and thus deviant behavior.

Many Marxist theorists have employed the theory of the capitalist state in their arguments. For example,
Steven Spitzer utilized the theory of bourgeois control over social junk and social dynamite; and George
Rusche was known to present analysis of different punishments correlated to the social capacity and
infrastructure for labor. He theorized that throughout history, when more labor is needed, the severity of
punishments decreases and the tolerance for deviant behavior increases. Jock Young, another Marxist
writer, presented the idea that the modern world did not approve of diversity, but was not afraid of social
conflict. The late modern world, however, is very tolerant of diversity.[3] However, it is extremely afraid of
social conflicts, which is an explanation given for the political correctness movement. The late modern
society easily accepts difference, but it labels those that it does not want as deviant and relentlessly punishes
and persecutes.

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault believed that torture had been phased out from modern society due to the dispersion of
power; there was no need any more for the wrath of the state on a deviant individual. Rather, the modern
state receives praise for its fairness and dispersion of power which, instead of controlling each individual,
controls the mass.

He also theorized that institutions control people through the use of discipline. For example, the modern
prison (more specifically the panopticon) is a template for these institutions because it controls its inmates
by the perfect use of discipline.

Foucault theorizes that, in a sense, the postmodern society is characterized by the lack of free will on the
part of individuals. Institutions of knowledge, norms, and values, are simply in place to categorize and
control humans.

Biological theories of deviance

Praveen Attri claims genetic reasons to be largely responsible for social deviance. The Italian school of
criminology contends that biological factors may contribute to crime and deviance. Cesare Lombroso was
among the first to research and develop the Theory of Biological Deviance which states that some people
are genetically predisposed to criminal behavior. He believed that criminals were a product of earlier
genetic forms. The main influence of his research was Charles Darwin and his Theory of Evolution.
Lombroso theorized that people were born criminals or in other words, less evolved humans who were
biologically more related to our more primitive and animalistic urges. From his research, Lombroso took
Darwin's Theory and looked at primitive times himself in regards to deviant behaviors. He found that the
skeletons that he studied mostly had low foreheads and protruding jaws. These characteristics resembled
primitive beings such as Homo Neanderthalensis. He stated that little could be done to cure born criminals
because their characteristics were biologically inherited. Over time, most of his research was disproved. His
research was refuted by Pearson and Charles Goring. They discovered that Lombroso had not researched
enough skeletons to make his research thorough enough. When Pearson and Goring researched skeletons
on their own they tested many more and found that the bone structure had no relevance in deviant behavior.
The statistical study that Charles Goring published on this research is called "The English Convict".

Other theories

The classical school of criminology comes from the works of Cesare Beccaria and Jeremy Bentham.
Beccaria assumed a utilitarian view of society along with a social contract theory of the state. He argued
that the role of the state was to maximize the greatest possible utility to the maximum number of people and
to minimize those actions that harm the society. He argued that deviants commit deviant acts (which are
harmful to the society) because of the utility it gives to the private individual. If the state were to match the
pain of punishments with the utility of various deviant behaviors, the deviant would no longer have any
incentive to commit deviant acts. (Note that Beccaria argued for just punishment; as raising the severity of
punishments without regard to logical measurement of utility would cause increasing degrees of social harm
once it reached a certain point.)

The criminal justice system

There are three sections of the criminal justice system that function to enforce formal deviance:[5]

1. Police: The police maintain public order by enforcing the law. Police use personal discretion
in deciding whether and how to handle a situation. Research suggests that police are more
likely to make an arrest if the offence is serious, if bystanders are present, or if the suspect is
of a visible minority.[3]
2. Courts: Courts rely on an adversarial process in which attorneys-one representing the
defendant and one representing the Crown-present their cases in the presence of a judge
who monitors legal procedures. In practice, courts resolve most cases through plea
bargaining. Though efficient, this method puts less powerful people at a disadvantage.[3]
3. Corrections system: Community-based corrections include probation and parole.[5] These
programs lower the cost of supervising people convicted of crimes and reduce prison
overcrowding but have not been shown to reduce recidivism.[3]

There are four jurisdictions for punishment (retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, societal protection),[3]
which fall under one of two forms of justice that an offender will face:[8]

1. Punitive justice (retribution & deterrence): This form of justice defines boundaries of
acceptable behaviors, whereby an individual suffers the consequences of committing a
crime and in which pain or suffering inflicted on the individual is hidden from the public.
2. Rehabilitative justice (rehabilitation & societal protection): This form of justice focuses on
specific circumstances, whereby individuals are meant to be fixed.

See also
Abnormality
Antisocial behavior
Deviant Behavior
Libertine
Nonconformity
Personality disorders
Antisocial personality disorder
Political abuse of psychiatry
Positive deviance
Psychopathy
Role engulfment
Rudeness
Sin
Social disorganization theory
Sociopathy
Workplace aggression
Workplace deviance
Victimology

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Further reading
Clinard, M. B., and R. F. Meier. 1968. Sociology of Deviant Behavior.
Dinitz, Simon, Russell R. Dynes, and Alfred C. Clarke. 1975. Deviance: Studies in
Definition, Management, and Treatment.
Douglas, J. D., and F. C. Waksler. 1982. The Sociology of Deviance: An Introduction.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
MacNamara, Donal E. J., and Andrew Karmen. 1983. DEVIANTS: Victims or Victimizers?
Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage.
Pratt, Travis. n.d. "Reconsidering Gottfredson and Hirschi’s General Theory of Crime:
Linking the Micro- and Macro-level Sources of Self-control and Criminal Behavior Over the
Life-course."
Bartel, Phil. 2012. "Deviance (http://cec.vcn.bc.ca/cmp/modules/cri-dev.htm)." Social Control
and Responses to Variant Behaviour (module). Vancouver Community Network. Web.
Accessed 7 April 2020.
"Types of Deviance (https://web.archive.org/web/20120215133912/http://plato.acadiau.ca/co
urses/soci/thomson/criminaljustice/deviance/deviance.htm)." Criminal Justice. Acadia
University. Archived from the original (http://plato.acadiau.ca/courses/soci/thomson/criminalj
ustice/deviance/deviance.htm) on 17 Oct 10. Retrieved on 23 Feb. 2012.
"Research at CSC (https://www.csc-scc.gc.ca/research/index-eng.shtml)." Correctional
Service of Canada. Government of Canada. Web. Retrieved on 23 Feb 2012.
Macionis, John, and Linda Gerber. 2010. "Emile Durkheim"s Basic Insight" Sociology (7th
ed.).
Macionis, John, and Linda Gerber. 2010. "The Criminal Justice System" Sociology (7th ed.).

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